Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Nothing is more convincing than self-belief...

Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

There's no map for being an artist.